Lynsi Burton

Police are looking for the assailant in the Saturday beating of a military veterans advocate near the Seattle sports stadiums. The alleged victim is reportedly known as a champion of military veterans and their families and was promoting his cause Saturday night on Seahawks game day, police reports say. While taking a break, a man […]
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A man was sent to the hospital with a leg wound after a University District shooting early Sunday. Shots were fired about 2 a.m. outside a club near Northeast 45th Street and Eighth Avenue Northeast, police reports say. Cops arrived at the scene within a minute and found one man injured by a gunshot. Firefighters […]
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A 24-year-old Bellevue man was arrested in connection with a December slaying in Portland. Portland detectives believe the Bellevue man killed Ashley Benson, a 24-year-old woman who was found Dec. 26 in the DoubleTree Hotel Lloyd Center, reports say. The autopsy indicates the mother of a young boy died by homicide, but Portland police did […]
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Northeast King County is seeing an increase in mail theft in recent months, according to a Friday statement from the King County Sheriff’s Office. Though detectives have arrested several people allegedly connected to the thefts, reports continue to stream in from victims, the agency says. The Sheriff’s Office says deputies have fielded 68 mail theft […]
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A 20-year-old man was shot Thursday night while walking in the Central District. The man was walking about 11:45 p.m. near 22nd Avenue and East Cherry Street when he stopped a dark sedan following him, Seattle police say. A man wearing a hooded sweatshirt exited the car and opened fire on the victim, one bullet […]
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Two men remain in King County Jail after being arrested in connection with a robbery and assault that partially blinded a Georgetown gas station clerk. The clerk remains in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center and is now blind in his right eye, according to probable cause documents. A 47-year-old and a 58-year-old were arrested […]
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Crews had to rescue someone from Elliott Bay twice in the span of 12 hours. Ferry crews rescued a 27-year-old man about 10 a.m. Wednesday after he jumped from the Puyallup vessel between Seattle and Bainbridge Island, according to reports from Washington State Ferries and the Seattle Fire Department. Firefighters took the man from Colman […]
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Seattle police arrested a man Monday night accused of the 2011 slaying and dismemberment of Donald Meyer. Detectives connected Seattle resident Scott Halfhill, 59, to Meyer’s murder through forensic evidence. A warrant for his arrest was issued on Friday. A patrol officer found Halfhill’s car Monday night and staked it out until Halfhill returned to […]
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Seattle detectives believe a Christmas Day Fremont bank burglary was an inside job. Someone took away a stack of cash about 3 a.m. that morning after entering the bank – located in the 3400 block of Evanston Avenue North – through an unlocked door, applying tape over a vault room camera and breaking into a […]
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